by Amin Sharifi | Gatestone Institute | July 9, 2025
Iran’s suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran’s decades-long strategy — deny, delay, deceive — continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability. Pictured: HE Mr. Reza Najafi, Resident Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the IAEA, chats with IAEA Spokesperson Fredrik Dahl at the IAEA 1762nd Board of Governors meeting held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 9 June 2025 (Photo by IAEA Imagebank – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia)
- Iran’s suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran’s decades-long strategy — deny, delay, deceive — continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability…. It has never stopped.
- The problem is not that Iran has “suspended cooperation.” The problem is that the West keeps treating each step as if it is a fresh crisis that can still be reversed with enough diplomacy.
- Iran will not stop, and diplomacy has an extremely low probability of working for a serious, long-term solution. Forty-six years of sanctions, deterrence, and inspections have all failed. Regime change appears the only realistic solution. It is what many Iranians still risk their lives demanding, what most of Iran’s neighbors would welcome, and what the broader international community would ultimately benefit from.
Iran’s suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran’s decades-long strategy — deny, delay, deceive — continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability. Some commentators are now warning that Iran has suspended cooperation and may finally pursue the bomb, as if that is not already taking place. Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons for decades. It has never stopped.
The only way to brake the drive towards nuclear weapons in Iran is to actually bomb the existing uranium stores. The Iranians have developed ultrasonic rockets that can target Israel and it seems that their best rockets can only hit residential buildings. OK, they hit some military bases too, we’ve heard, but to believe that their technology is only adequate to imprecisely strike Israeli targets is delusional.
Iran is waiting for the USA and Israel to finally get around to causing the kind of damage the Houthis are experiencing whenever they fire a rocket at Israel. Hit their ports, oil wells and infrastructure.
Yes! The UN will complain loudly but they never really care. The only thing that interests them is the opportunity to blame Israel and maybe even the USA with genocide, because that word sounds so Nazi that the populations of these countries cower in fear that they may be responsible for something like that!
In brief summary: the Iranians have built up and supported numerous terror organizations and encouraged them to strike Israel wherever they can. They are still busy within Israel and most western countries and they have not been beaten badly enough yet that they will stop any time soon. We can continue to sit peacefully and watch them do it and most western countries will still take the time to blame Israel for provoking this behavior giving them the respite to lean back and enjoy the show. For some reason, countries like Russia, China and Eastern Europe don’t even blink. They understand the mentality and are watching the show too, including what is going on in western countries.